Twelve years after the studio lights flickered on, the network will soon go dark: LHN will be folded into the SEC Network when Texas joins the Southeastern Conference next summer.
That meant a broad range of behind-the-scenes programming, including pre-game and post-game coverage. Some of it was too much: Former Texas coach Mack Brown was annoyed that the network's cameras were always watching.
But the emergence of LHN, coupled with the perception that Texas already held too much sway over the Big 12, proved to be a tipping point for some. Colorado and Nebraska had already left the previous year. And by the start of the 2011 season, Texas A&M announced it was going to the SEC. Missouri followed the Aggies a few months later.
But LHN eventually found its way into more homes, in front of more viewers, and began to take shape. Soon LHN was producing coverage of all Texas sports, from rowing to volleyball to swimming."It was always about doing good television. I wanted the quality to be just as good as anything we saw on ESPN," Lowry said.
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